The Showtime series “Fellow Travelers” sketches out the wide variety of ways queer people coped, copulated and compromised from the ’50s through the ’80s
Matt Bomer, left, as Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller and Jonathan Bailey as Tim Laughlin in Showtime's “Fellow Travelers.” “Fellow Travelers,” Showtime’s steamy, bittersweet series about two men in love, covers an extraordinary amount of historical ground — including the Lavender Scare, the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis — with a deft hand and a light touch. Yes, there’s a lot of sex.
rumored homosexuality, too. While introducing the Lavender Scare, the show is admirably casual in its treatment of McCarthy’s alleged The same can’t be said for the limited series’s protagonist, Hawkins Fuller , an assertive gay man closeted by necessity while he works for the State Department in the 1950s . A charismatic careerist at the department, “Hawk,” who’s casual about assignations, unencumbered by guilt or shame and uninterested in relationships, fixates on Tim Laughlin at a party celebrating Dwight D. Eisenhower’s election. Laughlin — whose beverage of choice is milk — is nervy and idealistic.
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